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144 messages, Last post on Mar 10, 2006 at 9:02 AM
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Back in June, I got the invitation to test drive sever Mercedes Benzes on a timed track. I sat there for a couple of minutes trying to figure out how to shift the automatic gears. It is unlike anything that I had ever driven. Finally, the race driver doing the trials showed me how to do it. Set the record time for the day - the slowest time. Said that I must be an accountant. By the way GM is offering the opportunity to drive a large number of GM models and competition throughout the country much as Edmunds.com did in the summer of 2000. Here is a link if anyone is interested: http://www.autoshowinmotion.com |
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Replying to: ateixeira (Sep 27, 2004 12:50 pm) That's a bit diffeent than wasting a half hour of a straight commissioned salesperson's time.
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Replying to: isellhondas (Sep 27, 2004 1:56 pm) |
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Replying to: kirstie_h (Sep 27, 2004 8:24 am) 
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EXACTLY! Horse is dead, move on.
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Replying to: Sylvia (Sep 27, 2004 3:48 pm) |
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Kick it a few times to see. If it moves, it was just sleeping. If the flys take off, then settle back down, in a cloud of noxious fumes, it's dead.
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Replying to: andyman73 (Sep 27, 2004 5:33 pm) |
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About 20 years ago, I stumbled across a dead horse, and did just that, to see what would happen. Kids will be kids. What a smell!
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on this one, being a serial looker myself. Note that I browse a lot, but only drive if there is a chance that it wil lend up on my short list, or I'm helping someone else shop. I also go at off times (like a Tuesday at 11:00), and I'm often the only customer in the place. There are a few dealers where I know some people, and they just toss a tag in and let me go, so it really doesn't take them any time. I have also gone in just to look out of curiosity, and ended up buying the car (either that visit or later), even though I wasn't really planning to at the time. The problem , to me, is that the manufacturers and dealers have a different agenda than the salesperson (and remember who does the advertising). The $ folks want as much showroom traffic as possible, but the salespeople prefer to have only a few people wander in, and only the true "buying it now ones", since in a perfect world every up leaves in a new car. I think it might have been Macabee that had a saying about turing lookers into buyers was the mark of a real salesman, otherwise they are nothing but order takers. |
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